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Webster 1913 Edition


dewfall

dew′fallˊ

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Noun.
The falling of dew; the time when dew begins to fall.

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dewfall

dewfall

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Noun

dewfall (plural dewfalls)

  1. The forming of dew.
  2. The time when dew begins to form.
    • 1979, Cormac McCarthy, Suttree, Random House, p.44:
      It was dark when they rose in the morning and dark when they filed into the kitchen to get their plates and spoons and still dark when they turned out in the dewfall and grainy mist of the yard.

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